Shane
Johnson started using eBay to sell beanie babies and then one baseball bat at a
time. Within five years he had create a successful business with a 12,000 square
foot warehouse and five different sporting goods web sites. He is based in rural
SE Idaho and most of his business is online from out-of-state.

Alaskan
Native Art Ecommerce Web Tourhttp://lone-eagles.com/alaskan-ecommerce.htm
To see how Alaskan Artists are marketing their work worldwide, here is a web tour
of Alaska Native art and crafts web sites originally created by Steve
Peterson.

Sloan
Foundation Career videos and resources
http://www.careercornerstone.org
Here are many videos on many different careers. Explore to see if there is
anything that interests you.

READ, or Listen To:

The Navajo Youth Chocolate ecommerce entrepreneurial success story at
http://www.dailyyonder.com/wanted-broadband-and-broader-minds
This website ( www.lickitysplitchocolate.com
) was started by Native
American youth in San Juan County, Utah, where the poverty rate is over 40%. The
business, though legally owned by adults, is managed and staffed by youth, the
CEO being fifteen years of age. Lickety Split Chocolate ships some 44,000
orders each month. This is what rural communities need " a chance for youth to
be involved, to learn business skills and make money for themselves." And
technology provided the medium for their business to succeed.

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